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| Criterion |  Agile Start Stop Continue |  Agile Sailboat Retrospective |  Innovation Lean Startup |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood. | When a team wants to read momentum, brakes, and risks together, it offers an easily understandable picture of the situation. It makes drive, obstacles, and headwind visible in the same picture. | For uncertain business assumptions, the method forces the idea into contact with real market reactions early. It separates wishful picture, assumption, and observable behavior, so that learning becomes faster than planning. This translates uncertainty into measurable insight. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | Wochen bis Monate je Lernzyklus | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 2-8 | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Start Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions | Sailboat Board, Risks, Improvement Actions | Hypothesis list, MVPs, Learning reports, Pivot or persevere decision | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments |
Tagsno overlap | RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection | RetrospectiveTeamImprovement | LeanStartupValidationMVP | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam |